“Pornography and depictions of sexuality have turned more than 4,500 British children--some of them as young as five--into sexual offenders, according to a UK-based child welfare charity. A Freedom of Information Act request showed that 4,562 minors--98 percent of them boys--committed 5,028 sexual offenses over a three year period, from 2009-2012. However, the London Telegraph reports, “the true figure” of total offenders ‘could be even higher as nine forces, including the three largest--the Metropolitan Police, Greater Manchester Police and West Midlands Police--could not provide the relevant figures.’ Twenty percent of cases reported involved a family member. In another third, a family friend was victimized. ‘We know that technology and easy access to sexual material is warping young people’s views of what is normal or acceptable behavior,’ said Claire Lilley, policy adviser at The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). The report's content, though specific to Great Britain, contains universal truths. ‘Child-on-child sexual abuse and rape is a growing problem in every culture where pornography flourishes,’ Patrick Trueman, a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan administration and president of Morality In Media, told LifeSiteNews.com. ‘Children act out what they see. ... The British report joins an accumulating mound of heart-wrenching stories showing how pornography has permanently scarred children around the world--both the victims and the perpetrators.”

(“Porn Turned thousands of British Children into Sex Offenders,” LifeSiteNews.com, March 4, 2013)